Latest Celestia Windows & macOS builds compiled from git (added a working macOS binary built with Qt5)

[CAP-Team]

I just successfully compiled a win32 copy of Celestia SVN 5038 from Windows 7 x64

[abramson]

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I am thinking about stopping compiling the windows version because there is Guillermo Abramson (http://cabfst28.cnea.gov.ar/~abramson/celestia/svnexec/) doing the job and I update much more slowly than him.

Celestia SVN for Windows: http://fisica.cab.cnea.gov.ar/estadistica/abramson/celestia/svnexec/

(Note that the direct links to cabfst28.cnea.gov.ar are no longer accessible from the outside world. Only this new address works, and its updated at midnight.)

Guillermo

[CAP-Team]

I just uploaded my latest build 5135. It includes the updated star rendering feature.

[Are]

Is there any new compilled SVN version for Windows?

[abramson]

Is there any new compilled SVN version for Windows?

I constinue compiling, but there is no new code, so nothing new. The changes are in data files.

[John Van Vliet]

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[Are]

Can somebody link version 5213? The latest Ive found is 5178
from here: http://fisica.cab.cnea.gov.ar/estadisti ... a/svnexec/ .

For this version Im getting this kind of error:
http://db.tt/JuqP5ryQ

(Intel HD 3000 graphics)

[abramson]

Can somebody link version 5213? The latest Ive found is 5178
from here: http://fisica.cab.cnea.gov.ar/estadisti ... a/svnexec/ .

For this version Im getting this kind of error:
http://db.tt/JuqP5ryQ

(Intel HD 3000 graphics)

Done. I uploaded SVN5213. As usual, it will be public after local midnight.

I packed the standard exe, as well as two others, built with the new star renderer and the fading orbits. I don't think these are in SVN at all (but I may be wrong), so I am using the one that Chris made public a couple of years ago.

What error do you mean in your image capture? Bad fonts?

Guillermo

[PlutonianEmpire]

How do the uploads you provide work? Do we download it and build it up ourselves so they can be used, or do you upload them already built up and ready for use?

[abramson]

How do the uploads you provide work? Do we download it and build it up ourselves so they can be used, or do you upload them already built up and ready for use?

Hi. As explained in the page, as well as in the readme file, I compile the SVN version myself and provide just the Windows executable. You have to copy it into the regular Celestia folder and run it from there. You may wish to backup the original celestia.exe, of course.

As I also mention there, nobody NEEDS these executables, unless they are desperate to try the latest improvements. Which, sadly, do not exist any more. The only differences I am aware of between my executables and 1.6.1 are the new star render (VERY good) and the fading orbits (which some people do not like, but I do). Plus some very minor inner improvements.

My antivirus program (Avast) has started to complain recently about my compiled Celestia. If you see any such notice from your antivirus, just ignore it. There is nothing evil in my programs.

Cheers,

[PlutonianEmpire]

How do the uploads you provide work? Do we download it and build it up ourselves so they can be used, or do you upload them already built up and ready for use?

Hi. As explained in the page, as well as in the readme file, I compile the SVN version myself and provide just the Windows executable. You have to copy it into the regular Celestia folder and run it from there. You may wish to backup the original celestia.exe, of course.

As I also mention there, nobody NEEDS these executables, unless they are desperate to try the latest improvements. Which, sadly, do not exist any more. The only differences I am aware of between my executables and 1.6.1 are the new star render (VERY good) and the fading orbits (which some people do not like, but I do). Plus some very minor inner improvements.

My antivirus program (Avast) has started to complain recently about my compiled Celestia. If you see any such notice from your antivirus, just ignore it. There is nothing evil in my programs.

Cheers,

Thank you.

[Are]

What error do you mean in your image capture? Bad fonts?

Yes. Is there any known solution for this?

[selden]

As I recall, this problem usually is caused by buggy graphics drivers. You might try installing the most recent drivers, downloading them from the Web site of the manufacturer of your graphics hardware.

In old versions of Celestia, turning off antialiasing would improve how the HUD fonts were drawn. You might try that, too.

[John Van Vliet]

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[PlutonianEmpire]

As I also mention there, nobody NEEDS these executables, unless they are desperate to try the latest improvements. Which, sadly, do not exist any more. The only differences I am aware of between my executables and 1.6.1 are the new star render (VERY good) and the fading orbits (which some people do not like, but I do). Plus some very minor inner improvements.

Do any of the executables made in the past contain the missing improvements? And I forget what the improvements were, actually...

[John Van Vliet]

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[PlutonianEmpire]

one could start with reading the log entry in SVN
http://celestia.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... /celestia/

and the current is 5214 and not 5044 as per the title

Grant just added 37 stars

Yeah, I already have the habit of checking the SVN for updates, and thanks for the info.

[abramson]

Do any of the executables made in the past contain the missing improvements? And I forget what the improvements were, actually...

Indeed. Take for example the latest one, celestia-v1.7x-svn5213.zip. It contains:

celestia.exe
celestia-newstar.exe
celestia-newstar-neworbit.exe

The first one is plain kosher Celestia. The second one is built with the improved stars rendering. The third one has the star rendering plus the fading orbits. I thought that the names should be obvious enough.

I am also building the qt4 for windows. I will include it eventualy.

Guillermo

[PlutonianEmpire]

Do any of the executables made in the past contain the missing improvements? And I forget what the improvements were, actually...

Indeed. Take for example the latest one, celestia-v1.7x-svn5213.zip. It contains:

celestia.exe
celestia-newstar.exe
celestia-newstar-neworbit.exe

The first one is plain kosher Celestia. The second one is built with the improved stars rendering. The third one has the star rendering plus the fading orbits. I thought that the names should be obvious enough.

I am also building the qt4 for windows. I will include it eventualy.

Guillermo

Those I already know.

I was referring to the latest improvements that you said WERE in Celestia but have been removed:

As I also mention there, nobody NEEDS these executables, unless they are desperate to try the latest improvements. Which, sadly, do not exist any more.

[abramson]

Oh, I see. I didn't mean that some improvements were removed. Just that there are no new improvements (that I am aware of). Actually, the new star renderer is not complete, it has some issues. But nobody would fix them.